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Sensible Country Names

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- - - 1.16.x COMPATIBLE - - -

* WHAT IS THIS MOD ABOUT?

It's an attempt to make the name of every country, irrespective of ideology, be more... sensible. Just like in HOI3!

* WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

It means that countries won't have bizarre names ('Kiwi Empire' begone) or incredibly long names that no one can actually remember (try saying 'People's Republic of China', 'Empire of the Thunder Dragon' and 'Kingdom of Norway' quickly 3x. You will mess up!). Countries will be called *exactly what they were called by most of the world at the time* (1930s-1940s) in a *short, concise way*.

* CAN YOU GIVE SOME EXAMPLES?

To give two examples, 'German Reich' will be called 'Germany' even when fascist, non-aligned, democratic or communist, while 'Russia' only changes its name when communist ('Soviet Union'). Fancy subject names (e.g. Lithuania under German control, the 'Reichskommissariat Litauen') are changed to more simple ones ('Lithuania'). Some historical names that were more widely used are applied as well.

* DID YOU CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE BESIDES COUNTRY NAMES?

The Fascist Autonomy system has been translated from German into English (so we have 'Comissariat' and 'Protectorate' instead of 'Reichskommissariat' and 'Reichsprotektorat'; Fascist Italy using German nomenclature no more!).

The Japanese Autonomy system now makes sense ('Imperial Subject' is now 'Imperial Partner').

Most factions got more elegant/translated names (Italy's 'Novus Imperium Romanum' is the 'Pact of Steel', the Polish 'Miedzymorze' becomes 'Intermarium', Japan's 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere' is known as 'Co-Prosperity Sphere', etc).

The mod also makes sure technology groups, decisions and focuses have sensible, logical names.

* WHAT ABOUT CIVIL WARS?

You might see two Spains and two Indias. That's the only part where I think the mod can become somewhat strange, but after a while you will get used to it - civil wars rarely last long, and you can always know which tag is which by looking at map color, flag, or ideology, or even just passing the mouse pointer over the land. A small price to pay for no longer seeing a L O N G - A S S "Nationalist Spain" or "Communist China" for the rest of the game.

KAISERREICH VERSION: https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1759512533
161 Comments
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Enriador  [author] 1 Mar @ 4:23pm 
Must be the same error that made Poland still show up as Kingdom of Poland a while back. For some reason the countries_cosmetic file isn't always replaced properly by the mod.

I have a workaround in mind that might work. Thanks a lot for the pointers!
Eric Blair 1 Mar @ 3:06pm 
I may have been able to change the "Dominion of Canada" to just "Canada" by going into the same file "countries_cosmetic_l_english".

https://i.imgur.com/Grdisfk.png

https://i.imgur.com/wLMKX4T.png

I managed to do the same with India as well:

https://i.imgur.com/j92ntTs.png

https://i.imgur.com/GS5eMqz.png

I don't really know much about modding so I would assume it's not as simple as just changing some lines like I did to get it to work the same way it does in your mod, so I'm not sure if this might help.
Enriador  [author] 1 Mar @ 1:25pm 
I can't see why Canada is named like that. Apparently every single line related to "Dominion of Canada" inside the game files has been correctly changed: https://imgur.com/a/OUOUc94.png

I need more time with this one.
Enriador  [author] 1 Mar @ 12:48pm 
Looks like they changed something regarding British dominions, I am investigating.

I did find out why Germany was called German Empire and it is fixed. I will upload the update tonight.
Eric Blair 1 Mar @ 5:10am 
Yes that makes a lot sense about China! I actually wasn't aware of the "Red China" name before so good to know.

Also, I did find another name which you've probably already noticed yourself, Canada has gone back to being "Dominion of Canada" rather than just Canada. Don't know how I didn't see that since it's quite a long name.
Enriador  [author] 28 Feb @ 3:49pm 
Not nitpicking at all.

"Red China" was intentional. After research I found out Mao Zedong's cell wasn't organized as "Soviet" for very long (stopped being so in 1937) whereas the moniker "Red China" was not only ubiquitous throughout that era but also earnestly embraced by the communists themselves.

No idea why on earth India and Germany got the vanilla names back, I will fix this.
Eric Blair 28 Feb @ 1:06pm 
I'll apologise beforehand because I feel I'm really nitpicking here. I've noticed that India (as one of Britain's puppet nations) has gone back to being called "British Raj" instead of "British India". Germany, with Wilhelm II, has gone back to being "German Empire" instead of just "Germany" and lastly, Communist China is now "Red China" instead of "Soviet China". Just pointing these out because I know they were named these in the mod before. The mod is still awesome, keep up the great work!
Enriador  [author] 27 Feb @ 1:12pm 
Oooh nice to hear guys! Please enjoy the mod and let me know if you have any feedback to share.
Eric Blair 27 Feb @ 10:53am 
Update worked! No issues so far. Thanks for working so hard to get it sorted, much appreciated!
theanswerisme 26 Feb @ 8:39pm 
Port to 56 and KX